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Articles by Penny

“Teaching the Writer’s Craft with Micro Mentor Texts,”
Edutopia, March 16, 2023.

“Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher on the Benefits of Peer Writing Groups,”
Edutopia, January 14, 2022.

“Culture, Loss, and Silence: It’s On Us,”
featured in Voices from the Middle, May 2021.

“Let Them Read, Please,”
Educational Leadership, ASCD, Vol. 77, No. 5, February, 2020.

“The Curse of Helicopter Teaching,”
Educational Leadership, ASCD, Vol. 77, No. 6, March, 2020.

“Engaged in Young Adult Literature: A Collaborative Conversation with Penny Kittle and Gay Ivery,”
The ALAN Review, Fall 2019.

“Reimagining Reading: Connecting and Promoting Lifelong Readers Through Book Clubs,”
co-authored with Kelly Gallagher, Literacy Now, International Literacy Association, April 4, 2018.

“Giving Students the Right Kind of Writing Practice,” co-authored with Kelly Gallagher, Educational Leadership, Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, April 2018.

“On Joy, Teaching, and the Deep Satisfaction of Writing,” Voices from the Middle, Sep. 2017. 

“What We Learn When We Free Writers,” Adolescent Literacy in Perspective Journal, Ohio State University, March 2014. (OHIO STATE )

“Teaching the Writer’s Craft,” Educational Leadership, Vol. 71, No. 7, April 2014.

“Investment and Independence: The Superpower of Story,” The Exchange, the newsletter of the International Reading Association Secondary Reading Interest Group, April 2014.

“Investment and Independence: The Superpower of Story,” The Exchange, the newsletter of the International Reading Association Secondary Reading Interest Group, April 2014.

“Zookeeper, Spy, Teacher” in Open a World of Possible: Real Stories About the Joy and Power of Reading, Scholastic, 2014. 

“Holding On Tight to All That is Common in Our Core,” California English, winter 2013.

Heinemann Catalog-Journal: A Special Don Graves Retrospective Issue, edited, fall 2013.

“Stories from Along the Way,” Voices from the Middle, NCTE, Sept. 2006–2013

“Writing Giants, Columbine, and the Queen of Route 16,” Voices from the Middle, NCTE, September 2001, reprinted for the 25th Anniversary Edition, November 2017. 

“One Book, One Boy, One Principal” from Voices from the Middle, Vol. 18., No. 2, December 2010. 

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